Written Comments for AI Insight Forum on Innovation

Congressional testimony on centering workers in AI policy

In Senate testimony, Tech Institute Executive Director Amanda Ballantyne argues for centering worker voices in AI development to avoid repeating past mistakes like free trade that devastated communities. She highlights successful union-university partnerships in transit and hospitality showing how frontline expertise improves technology, and calls on Congress to make unions co-equal partners in AI innovation to ensure public investments create good jobs rather than worsen inequality.